Author Stas Holodnak

Stas Holodnak, originally from Ukraine, lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. He enjoys sailing, rowing and swimming. He hopes one day to explore the Amazon River and live to write about it. Links to his essays can be found here.

Some sail to travel, others travel to sail.
The lake near where I was staying did not figure on a local map but this wasn’t about the lake's size. Always a crew member on others' boats, I at last had one to my...

The last time I tried windsurfing I wasn't able to even stand on the board, let alone hold the mast. A friend's response to my grumblings was brutally visual. He let a pencil stand vertically on his desk. "Th...